Massage License Decriminalization Act (A8281) Gonzalez-Rojas
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See our Press Release for our February 25, 2022 Act Launch. (English, Chinese, Korean)
Read our February 2022 report: Un-Licensed: Asian Migrant Massage Licensure and the Racialized Policing of Poverty, co-authored by RCS, Butterfly, Massage Parlor Outreach Project, Bowen Public Affairs, and Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Resources
Here is a digital library of resources compiled for the benefit of Asian migrant communities, sex working communities, and the overlap between the two of them.
For + About Migrant Workers
10 Myths About Human Trafficking in Chinese Migrant Communities
Illicit Massage Parlors in Los Angeles County and New York City: Stories from Women Workers, October 2019
Understanding Migrant Sex Workers, Butterfly Network
Behind the Rescue: How Anti-Trafficking Investigations and Policy Harm Migrant Sex Workers, Butterfly Network, April 2018
Safeguarding the Human Rights and Dignity of Undocumented Migrant Sex Workers, Platform for Cooperation of Undocumented Migrants, September 2019